User blog comment:Vasara5/Title Screen and Bootscreen translations/@comment-30866120-20180115194036/@comment-27493717-20180117181020

Hey, Zenki! While I was looking through my KDZ gallery, I came across this:

It gave me some thought, as it turned out to be the symbol, that you had been looking for.

I also found out the actual meaning of it, so...

(cough cough)

The symbol is the Hiragana ち (Chi) and can be translated as "life force", "energy" or the "flow".

I mean "flow" as in the sense of "being in the flow" while playing a game for example. It's the moment, when you are so much in the game, that it's like as if you merged with your ingame character and time just flies past and the game gets very easy, because you play the character just as if their body would be your own one. ;)

Okay. Back to the topic. :D

I made this graphic:

So, the Chi in Tenchi Meidou is related to the attack bar and it likely represents the character's inner focus. Once their focus has reached its peak, they can use Om, because they are "in the flow".

It would also explain why they can exert all of their power into a single, devastating attack.

Of cause, you could just ignore the translations alltogether an call it "Chi" like in the original, Japanese version, because the word "Chi" is often used outside Japan with the very same meaning. XD